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by kyrra 5y ago
I recommend reading his articles to understand what I say when I said adapt. It means things like: building more levees and farming different crops or in different parts of the country or world. Conflict over resources is always going to be
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by kyrra 5y ago
WSJ opinion pages has been publishing an alternate view to all of this that has at least been interesting. Specifically they have been articles by Bjørn Lomborg. NYTimes has covered one of his books before too: https://www.nyti
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I know nothing about this. I wonder if this was Google's response to the chip shortage? Maybe the cost/benefit (and just sheer inability to get certain parts) made them hold on to hardware for longe
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by kyrra 5y ago
I had a Xerox laser printer for about 12 years, and it worked pretty well. No special drivers needed, just uses a standard pcl6 or postscript. The problem with it was toner cost. Official toner was stupid expensive, but there was decent af
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by kyrra 5y ago
WSJ has a commentary piece in today's paper that is similar but also important. The jist I get out of it is that science is ever evolving and there is no "trust the science", as it just gives us data and is not an absolute tr
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler opinions are my own. I'm not a spanner expert, but I use F1 at least a little. If you start having global spanner replicas, don't you start getting into read safe times? According to the GCP docs, a given node may not kno
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https://archive.is/r6kNh
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by kyrra 5y ago
Caeser was a VP at Google. In the story from when he left[0], his replacement has 3,700 people under him. So it's a single person with a huge amount of influence. Bill Ready came in and decided to do something different. [0] https:
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by kyrra 5y ago
Original article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-is-scrapping-its-plan-to... Mirror: https://archive.is/DfNpk Googler, opinions are my own. This was an ambitious product. It was lead by Caesar Se
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by kyrra 5y ago
Peter Daszak was also one of the people organizing the letter in the lancet back in 2020 denying that it came from a lab. Original letter: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6... Lance
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by kyrra 5y ago
Depends on what your goals are. Protos give a nice API definition if you want to make sure you don't screw up that data that's on the wire (field name misspelled or something similar). Obviously JSON has OpenAPI (swagger), but I
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. Google has been doing this for a while, as can be seen when the reporters wrote about it 2 years ago: https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/17/18629789/google-purchase-... . HN di
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. Google just bought another building in Boulder Colorado 4 days ago as well: https://www.dailycamera.com/2021/09/16/google-buys-the-reve-... The price for it isn't listed yet
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by kyrra 5y ago
Original NYTimes article: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/middleeast/iran-nuc... Mirror: https://archive.is/mPBhk
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by kyrra 5y ago
I can't remember where I saw the post, but the reason it's such a fast product is that they put a large amount of time into performance analysis and fixing those issues. So it's not so much the stack as the pure engineering t
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by kyrra 5y ago
You're one of the first people I've seen defending these points. Do you have any well sources articles that back up any of the points you are making?
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by kyrra 5y ago
The NSA is much like the FBI, it has multiple divisions with different purposes. The NSA has one group that is specifically focused on the security of US public and private entities. They help to find standards that the rest of the US burea
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by kyrra 5y ago
The courts haven't failed. If you are referring to the SCOTUS emergency relief ruling, that was entirely procedural. Important thing to know is that via emergency relief, judges cannot strike down a law, they can just stop people or gr
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by kyrra 5y ago
China is also building more coal power plants than the rest of the world. https://e360.yale.edu/features/despite-pledges-to-cut-emissi...
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinion is my own. When I started at Google in 2015, in my first week here chatting with some peers, some of them were complaining about some of our policies around Android and that they much preferred Apple (the person didn't
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. 100% this. Even if we come here and express our opinions, or even express them internally on discussion forums and email, or chat, any of those communications are open to discovery by the plaintiff. If the plai
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by kyrra 5y ago
Point taken, thanks for raising it. I could definitely see some newer sites have that issue that require local teams until critical mass is hit. I guess the sites I tend to work with are already very well established, so people I've se
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I work in payments. Caesar leaving was interesting for sure, and he just announced a new fintech startup yesterday. https://www.arbo.works/ I can't speak to why he left or what he's d
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler, opinion is my own. Says who? They are allowing people to apply for full remote, with an estimated 8500 so far approved. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-approved-85-of-roughl...
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by kyrra 5y ago
This. You could rely on a cookie during the get request as well, that you set on the users browser during registration. Or re-auth after click.
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by kyrra 5y ago
Well that interesting. Thanks for pointing that out. Wonder why they did that.
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Btw, Google actually publishes this documentation externally. https://opensource.google/docs/releasing/
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by kyrra 5y ago
For those that don't know, this is fibers for Java: https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/loom/Main As someone that codes Java (using various async libraries) and has dabbled in Go, I really look forward to t
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by kyrra 5y ago
Googler opinions are my own. I know nothing about the space. At least skimming the termux issue here is that it was done for SELinux policy changes in trying to improve security of application running on Android. Is that correct? Then the a
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by kyrra 5y ago
Hi former neighbor! For those that are wondering, here is the campus on maps: https://goo.gl/maps/WdHju125jSbmRbaS9 . It looks like it's mostly been torn down now (streetview and satellite show it gone). I never v

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